{"id":12855,"date":"2016-05-24T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2016-05-24T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:44:57","slug":"the-big-picture-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/24\/the-big-picture-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Picture: The Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m giving the last lecture on my mini-tour for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/bigpicture\/\"><em>The Big Picture<\/em><\/a> tonight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.org\/site\/activities-programs\/lectures\">at the Natural History Museum<\/a> here in Los Angeles. If you can&#8217;t make it, here&#8217;s a decent substitute: video of the talk I gave last week at Google headquarters in Mountain View.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Big Picture | Sean Carroll | Talks at Google\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_x26a-ztpQs8\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/x26a-ztpQs8\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x26a-ztpQs8\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1H3M27S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-05-23T18:34:29Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_x26a-ztpQs8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/x26a-ztpQs8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Big Picture | Sean Carroll | Talks at Google<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x26a-ztpQs8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/x26a-ztpQs8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Picture | Sean Carroll | Talks at Google\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Already internationally acclaimed for his notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings extraordinary intellect to our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, beliefs, hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless in the void? Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview? Carroll&#039;s presentation of the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is unique. He shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. \u201cWeaving the threads of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and philosophy into a seamless narrative tapestry, Sean Carroll enthralls us with what we\u2019ve figured out in the universe and humbles us with what we don\u2019t yet understand. Yet in the end, it\u2019s the meaning of it all that feeds your soul of curiosity.\u201d \u2014Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the CalTech and received his PhD from Harvard. Recently, he has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, and the emergence of complexity. He has earned prizes and fellowships by the NSA, NASA, Sloan Foundation, Packard Foundation, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, Royal Society of London, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Carroll has appeared on The Colbert Report, PBS\u2019s NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and serves as a science consultant for film and TV. He has been interviewed by NPR, Scientific American, Wired, and The NYT, and has given a TED talk on the multiverse that has more than 1M views. This Talk at Google talk was hosted by Boris Debic. eBook https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Sean_Carroll_The_Big_Picture?id=x21qCgAAQBAJ\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve quite worked out all the kinks in this talk, but you get the general idea. My biggest regret was that I didn&#8217;t have the time to trace the flow of free energy from the Sun to photosynthesis to ATP to muscle contractions. It&#8217;s a great demonstration of how biological organisms are maintained through the creation of entropy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m giving the last lecture on my mini-tour for The Big Picture tonight at the Natural History Museum here in Los Angeles. If you can&#8217;t make it, here&#8217;s a decent substitute: video of the talk I gave last week at Google headquarters in Mountain View. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve quite worked out all the kinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-picture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12856,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}